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Let's talk about sex : histories of sexuality in Australia from Federation to the pill
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ISBN: 1283308584 9786613308580 1443828130 9781443828130 9781283308588 1443827363 9781443827362 6613308587 Year: 2011 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub.,

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From the start of the new Australian nation in 1901, to the use of the female contraceptive pill in 1961, Let's Talk About Sex explores the ways sexuality has been constructed, understood and experienced in Australia. Far from being something hidden and private, this work brings sexuality out into the open, and explains why sex is of social, cultural, political and economic importance. Let's Talk About Sex is an inclusive history, surveying multiple and interwoven forms of sexuality, desire,...


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Troubling sex
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ISBN: 0774821825 0774821809 1299588034 9780774821827 Year: 2011 Publisher: Vancouver UBC Press

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When legal scholars or judges approach the subject of sexuality, they are often constrained by existing theoretical frameworks. For instance, queer theorists typically focus on sexual liberty but tend not to consider issues such as sexual violence. Feminist theories focus on violence but often don't give recognition to the joy of sexuality. To assess the possibility of devising a legal theory of sexuality that can ensure equality without assimilation, diversity without exclusion, and liberty without suffering, Elaine Craig examines the Supreme Court of Canada's approach to sexuality in cases that range from sexual violence to discrimination based on orientation. Although the Court continues to hold an essentialist understanding of sexuality that renders certain harms invisible, its feminist-inspired approach to sexual violence recognizes the socially constructed nature of sexuality and produces legal reasoning that promotes sexual integrity as a common interest. Blending feminist theory with the inclusiveness of queer theory, Craig advances an iconoclastic approach to law and sexuality that has the power to transform both theory and practice.


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Sex, love, and friendship
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ISBN: 1283212803 9786613212801 9401200688 9789401200684 9781283212809 9789042033689 9042033681 6613212806 Year: 2011 Publisher: Amsterdam New York Rodopi

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The joke is that all the prostitutes go on vacation when the philosophers come to town. The reason that the other conventioneers do it; philosophers just talk about it. And talk about sex and love, and friendship is what the contributors to this volume do! They talk and argue, split hairs and clarify, all trying to advance our understanding of this most interesting practice of the human species. Some of the best minds on three continents, from four nations, and eighteen of the United States discuss such topics as adultery, commitment, cross dressing, gender politics, date rape, family, friendship, friends as lovers, gayness, love, marital pluralism, marriage, prostitution, religiously motivated anti-queer sentiments, same sex marriage, seduction, and self-respect. Rather than preach, participants probe our attitudes and practices involving these issues with the aim of better understanding the broad range of sexual practices of our species. The result is a collection of stimulating essays that can enliven class discussions as well as provide guidance for the sexually perplexed. The work is accessible to readers from high school through college and beyond.


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Recruiting young love : how Christians talk about homosexuality.
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ISBN: 9780226410449 0226410447 Year: 2011 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago press


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Sexuality.
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ISBN: 9780415299299 9780415299282 9780203835838 9781136859199 9781136859236 Year: 2011 Publisher: London Routledge


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The languages of sexuality
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ISBN: 9780415375726 9780415375733 0203930320 9780203930328 9781134185894 1134185898 0415375738 041537572X 1283458160 9786613458162 9781134185849 9781134185887 113418588X Year: 2011 Publisher: New York, NY Routledge

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Words, Freud once wrote, are magic. Nowhere have words been more magical than in the writing of sexuality. Through words and concepts we learn what is good or bad, pleasurable or painful, significant and insignificant. The terms we use about sexuality do not simply describe something out there. They help shape what sexuality is. The Languages of Sexuality offers concise and incisive essays on key words and concepts which have played a significant role in shaping our understanding of contemporary sexualities and intimacies. Nearly a hundred essays illuminate the terms


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Individualizing gender and sexuality : theory and practice.
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ISBN: 9780415893572 0415893577 9780415893589 0415893585 9780203816066 0203816064 9781136719424 9781136719462 9781136719479 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York Routledge

Sex and society in early twentieth-century Spain : Hildegart Rodríguez and the World League for Sexual Reform
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ISBN: 1299201164 0708324703 9780708324707 9781299201163 9781783164899 1783164891 9780708320174 0708320171 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cardiff : University of Wales Press,

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This book examines issues of sex and society in early twentieth-century Spain, and does so by using a specific case history, namely that of Hildegart Rodríguez (1914-1933) who came to be one of the central players in the Spanish chapter of the World League for Sexual Reform (WLSR). In all its diversity and with all its inbuilt contradictions the movement provides the complex backcloth for understanding the nature and activity of Hildegart, while her life in its turn demonstrates how the divers strands of the movement led to paradox and conflict. In addition to this Hildegart's correspondence w


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God, sex and gender : an introduction
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ISBN: 9781405193702 9781405193696 Year: 2011 Publisher: Chichester Wiley-Blackwell

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"Engagingly and clearly written by a highly respected theologian, God, Sex, and Gender is the first comprehensive introduction to a theology of both sexuality and gender available in a single volume. Makes a theological contribution to understanding the unprecedented changes in sexual and gender relationships of the last fifty years Discusses many topics including: sexual difference; sexual equality; gender and power; the nature of desire; the future of marriage in Christian sexual ethics; homosexuality and same-sex unions; the problems of sexual minorities; contraception in a time of HIV/AIDS; the separation of sexual experience from marriage; and offers new arguments for marriage and for chastity Offers a consistent and engaging introduction at the cutting edge of theological inquiry, which is contemporary, undogmatic, questioning, and relevant to readers' experience, interests, and needs Written lucidly and engagingly by an established and respected academic who has published widely in this area "-- "The last 50 years have seen unprecedented changes in sexual and gender relationships. These include the easy availability of contraception, the separation of sexual experience from marriage and marriage from parenthood, more broken marriages, and legal provision for same-sex unions. Relationships between men and women have changed from a model of male dominance, towards a new model of male/female equality, and on to a new recognition of sexual and gender difference. These transformations have resulted in great benefits but they have also generated great uncertainties and unfulfilled expectations. They have sparked painful and on-going controversies in all the churches. God, Sex, and Gender is a clear and engaging introduction to these issues. It offers a consistent theological understanding which is contemporary, undogmatic, questioning, and relevant to readers' experience, interests and needs. Throughout the book, Thatcher connects theological ideas, with broader, secular thought. It fills a gap in the literature by linking together the diverse themes of sexuality, gender and Christian thought in one coherent volume. Its comprehensive and even-handed discussion of these issues will ensure it becomes a vital text in the field"--


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Gender and sexuality in modern Chinese history
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ISBN: 9780521683708 9780521865142 052168370X 052186514X 9781139013307 9781139158817 1139158813 9781139160865 1139160869 1139013300 9781139157056 1139157051 9781139157056 1139152459 1107225795 1283340933 1139159860 9786613340931 113915530X Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Gender and sexuality have been neglected topics in the history of Chinese civilization, despite the fact that there is a massive amount of historical evidence on the subject. China's late imperial government was arguably more concerned about gender and sexuality among its subjects than any other pre-modern state. How did these and other late imperial legacies shape twentieth-century notions of gender and sexuality in modern China? Susan Mann answers this by focusing on state policy, ideas about the physical body and notions of sexuality and difference in China's recent history, from medicine to the theater to the gay bars; from law to art and sports. More broadly, the book shows how changes in attitudes toward sex and gender in China during the twentieth century have cast a new light on the process of becoming modern, while simultaneously challenging the universalizing assumptions of Western modernity.

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